time. no breakdown. the former fighter pilot sat quietly and listened. he got 26 years to life. it was over for todd. but not for anyone else. not really. as james white s daughter, katelyn, told us i was told that monsters don t exist. my parents always told me that. and after going through that trial and seeing what i had to see, i can tell you with absolute certainty that that is 110% false. he is a monster. reporter: and rachel s men? we weren t surprised to hear that james has his own idea of what justice might be. did you have any thought about what would happen if the justice system didn t look after todd in a way that seemed reasonable to you? he would have been dealt with. reporter: by whom? me. reporter: you know, they could have put you in prison for life. it would have been a one-way mission. he and i are both goig to go down together.
from todd. you are not samurai. stop, stop, stop. stop, stop, stop. you do not speak truth. you only want to destroy. you have no bushido. you have no bushido. reporter: bushido? in japanese, the way of the warrior, the honor-based code of conduct of a samauri. why was todd winkler raving about it now? was this another psychotic episode? judge, off the bench. stop, stop, stop. reporter: of course, the trial came to a screeching halt. a mistrial loomed. may we have the courtroom cleared? reporter: instead, the judge came down hard on todd. if you want to play the game, we ll play it. and we ll just make sure everyone s here, it s safe. reporter: were there parallels?
know? it was it was some horrible acting going on. it wasn t believable. reporter: they also wondered why, on a warm southern night, was todd dressed in several layers of heavy clothing? was he protecting himself from a fall he knew he was going to cause? he had a lot of extra clothing on. but i also remember he also had a toboggan hat on. reporter: the kind you pull down over your ears. the kind yes. and i m standin there in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops. reporter: also, why did the accident happen on the one spot in the whole drive that offered a long straight drop hundreds of feet into a deep ravine? the steepest cliff possible on that road. reporter: why did their toyota pick up erupt into flames? that might happen in the movies, but rarely in real life. why did it look like the fire had been burning for a long time? it was the whole side of the mountain. it was a big mountain. it had to have been burnin an hour or two. yeah, probably.
attorney. he worked hard and long hours to support rachel. he wanted to make her happy, and he was a good dad. and for that she cheated on him, threatened him and then attacked with those scissors. of course, by that point, todd told the police, she was a very unstable woman. started drinking, started binge drinking. i was afraid for the children. she was just spinning into this mental cycle of self-destruction. reporter: and then todd s defense revealed this little gem. she s signed up for california sweetheart, which is an adult connection kind of you can judge for yourselves what it is. reporter: married to a man she d grown to hate, in an affair with a man she was maybe thinking of cheating on, said the defense. she was conflicted, said todd s attorney. she was telling people she was afraid of todd. and yet she sure didn t act like it here, todd and rachel look happy.
the house is not put together at all. reporter: such an odd place. in the garage that doubled as a hangar, investigators found todd s mustang, rachel s suv, a boat, a bmw motorcycle and parts of a plane todd was refurbishing. back inside the house, in the master bedroom, in a night stand, they found something else, too. something quite unexpected. this blue box. inside? ashes. what? at the bottom of the box was a label that simply said, cremated remains of catherine lynn winkler. and now, suddenly, there were two mysteries to solve. what really happened in the winkler baby s blood-stained bedroom? and more than a decade and two thousand miles away, what was we re realizing, wait, there was a former wife? and that was just the the prosecutor would have to